Criteria is simple:A great chef who made his or her mark in Miami and
then moved on. David Bouley doesn't qualify, as he wasn't actually
doing the cooking at Evolution. Carmen Gonzalez of the departed
Carmen's might make my top ten, but I don't think of her as being in
quite in the same league as these others, who are listed in loose
chronological order -- starting with the first to leave.
Kerry Simon: Miami's star chef in the early to mid-nineties when he
helmed Starfish, then Max's, and fina
*After years of my pooh-poohing parsley-speckled plate rims and mindless squiggles of mango and raspberry purees on dessert plates, it seems that both fads have faded into oblivion. Thank you, but please hold your applause until after the column is finished.*Norman Van Aken has laid low of late, no? I sniff a comeback in the air -- or maybe it's just the overripe mangoes in my kitchen.*The anti-foie gras movement has seemingly lost momentum, and virtually every new Miami area restaurant has the
Jacob KatelProspective Top Chef contestants shoot the shit while they wait their turn to see the casting director.​Top Chef 7 is officially on its way to your signal box, and Magical Elves, the production company behind the hit Bravo series, was in Miami on Sunday looking for talent. Prospective contestants turned up for a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. casting call at Club 50 in Brickell's Viceroy. Chefs from Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Coconut Creek, Tampa, Orlando, and even Jamaica showed up for the chance
